Semester 5
Essentials of Psychology (3 credits)
This course covers the psychology of biology and behavior, consciousness, memory, thought and language, intelligence, personality and gender, stress, and community influences.
Objectives:
- Describe the science of psychology, basic structure and function of the human nervous system, and basic structure and function of the sensory system
- Explain various states of consciousness, learning theories, and thought processes and development
- Summarize the nature of human motivation and development, the human development cycle, and approaches to understanding and assessing personality
- Prepare an essay on the topic of conditioning, memory, or motivation and emotion
- Recognize psychological disorders and available treatments
- Explain social psychology as it relates to attitudes, influences, behaviors, and stress
- Use critical thinking skills to determine the likely causes of behaviors of individuals and groups discussed in case studies
Marketing (3 credits)
This course covers the principles of marketing. Topics covered include assessing, analyzing, understanding, and targeting the marketplace, as well as the creation, capture, delivery, and communication of value. Students will learn how to develop a marketing plan; use social and mobile marketing effectively; integrate ethics into marketing strategies; influence the consumer decision process; perform market research; perform SWOT and STP analyses; make decisions concerning branding, packaging, and developing new products; price products and services fairly; set advertising objectives; and more.
Objectives:
- Analyze the many components that are considered and used when making marketing plans and strategies
- Analyze the foundation of the marketing model and its emergence
- Point out the targeted strategies and plans in marketing and globalization
- Formulate a plan of valuing production, innovation, and product marketing
- Develop valuing strategies for products and services in marketing
- Categorize the strategies for supply chain management and retailing
- Distinguish between the various domains under IMC strategies
- Design a marketing plan for an existing business
Advanced Composition (3 credits)
In this course, you’ll practice research and writing skills by developing papers that require you to use sources and correctly cite them using APA formatting. You’ll learn to look at writing with a critical eye—a skill you can apply to your work, as well as to the reading you do for research or in your daily activities. You’ll apply these skills to your writing through editing and revising.
Objectives:
- Analyze the fundamentals of the writing process.
- Categorize the planning and evaluating methods of a research project and the sources.
- Point out the sources of research and the methods of working with them.
- Differentiate between the organizing, drafting, revising, and documenting processes related to a research project.
- Point out the necessity of describing, illustrating, classifying, dividing, and defining your writing.
- Prepare illustrative essay based on a specified topic.
- Analyze the process of comparison and contrasting in developing literary content.
- Prepare an essay using comparison and contrast.
- Prepare a cause and effect essay on a specified topic.
- Categorize the steps, elements, and strategies of writing and evaluating arguments.
Textbook: Successful College Writing
Human Resources Management (3 credits)
Welcome to your Human Resources Management course, which is designed to introduce you to the field. Your textbook's learning objectives, found at the outset of each chapter, are meant to introduce you to basic concepts, theories, and perspectives related to effective human resource management. Further, your text includes a wealth of case studies and features that will help you understand practical problems and applications of human resource management principles. If you're seriously thinking about a career in human resource management, you should take advantage of these extra features, even when they aren't assigned.
Objectives:
- Describe the elements of human resource management, including labor considerations, regulation, and management of workflow
- Explain how companies should prepare for and implement HRM to hire new employees and create training programs
- Identify the aspects of employee, career, and turnover management
- Summarize how employees are paid, including legal requirements, performance-based pay, commissions, salaries, and benefits
- Describe other HRM functions including collective bargaining, labor relations, global HRM, and building a high-performance organization
- Explain key aspects of the field of human resource management
Textbook: Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
General Elective (3 credits)
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ACC201 - Intermediate Accounting 1
Objectives:
- Compute earnings per share.
- Study lease transactions, cash flow, pensions, and benefits.
- Learn about income tax accounting.
- Analyze financial statements.
ACC202 - Intermediate Accounting 2
Objectives:
- Study the differences between current liabilities and long-term liabilities, and focus on short-term liabilities and the contingencies they present.
- Discover the treatment of long-term liabilities.
- Find out the effects and treatment of income taxes.
- Account for pensions and retirement benefits.
- Study invested capital and earned capital in relation to the creditor’s interest in the assets of a corporation through shareholder’s equity.
ACC210 - Cost Accounting
Objectives:
- Analyze the fundamentals and processes of cost decision making
- Categorize the various costing processes related to cost accounting
- Identify the methods of analyzing cost performance and the importance of management control systems
- Apply your accounting skills on cost accounting computation and analysis
- Prepare a balance sheet, an income statement, and post-closing trial balance for Ice Cream Systems
ACC211 - Computer Applications in Accounting
Objectives:
- Explain how to install, register, and update the Sage 50® accounting software
- Print reports and back up data files using Sage 50®
- Record, post, and complete the accounting cycle for a service and merchandising enterprise using an automated accounting system
- Analyze the business flow of transactions in automated accounting systems, including customer lists, vendor files, inventory records, and employee files
- Demonstrate knowledge of the voucher system, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll systems, and departmentalized accounting
- Analyze and solve management accounting problems relating to operations and business profitability and financial reporting
COM110 - Public Relations 1
Objectives:
- Analyze the principles, components, and strategies involved in strategic writing
- Categorize the principles, ethics, and methods of strategic writing in public relations
- Point out the fundamentals of strategic writing in advertising
- Distinguish between the principles and methods of strategic writing in sales and marketing
- Analyze the importance of strategic writing in business communication
COM115-Public Relations 2
Objectives:
- Get tips on research techniques and planning and evaluating a public relations program.
- Discover how to prepare and handle printed and video news releases, media alerts and media kits, and pitch letters.
- Explore the use of social media and the function of trade shows and exhibitions in public relations.
- Examine conflict management and how to manage public opinion.
- Analyze the role of public relations in a variety of sectors and settings, such as corporate, government, global, educational, nonprofit, and sports public relations.
FIN101- Financial Management
Objectives:
- Learn about investing in long-term assets.
- Study capital structure and dividend policy.
- Learn all about financial planning and working capital management.
FIN210 - Personal Financial Management
Objectives:
- Apply money management skills to personal financial goals and plans
- Formulate a plan for saving, protecting, and managing financial assets and debt
- Develop strategies for consumer and housing purchases
- Evaluate various types of investing
- Determine the type of investments that best suit your financial goals
- Construct a will, a trust, and an estate plan
HRM210 - Compensation Management
Objectives:
- Learn about the different forms of pay, the pay model, and compensation strategies.
- Determine the sources of competitive advantage.
- Study internal alignment and what factors shape internal structure.
- Create a skills analysis and a competency analysis.
- Learn the factors that shape external competitiveness.
- Determine how performance pay can motivate employee behavior.
- Analyze strategies for measuring job performance.
- Discover the key issues in benefits planning, design, and administration.
- Study unions and the impact of unions on wage determination.
- Learn the laws that regulate pay in the workplace.
INT205 - Introduction to Internet Multimedia
Objectives:
- Learn about graphics, sound, video, and animation.
- Study the best practices for how to incorporate multimedia into your website and for a user-friendly web design.
- Learn how to add databases to your website for greater functionality.
- Discover the basics of e-commerce for the web and how to effectively advertise your online business.
- Plan and design an attractive website using multimedia.
Proctored Exam
You will be required to complete a proctored exam on selected courses each semester. These assessments will evaluate the knowledge and skills that you learned during the semester. You choose the time, the location, and the qualified exam supervisor.
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